A 



HISTORY 



ANIMALS. 



CHAPTER I. 



OF SLEEP AND HUNGER. 



As man, in all the privileges he enjoys, and the 

 powers he is invested with, has a superiority over 

 all other animals, so in his necessities he seems 

 inferior to the meanest of them all. Nature has 

 brought him into life with a greater variety of 

 wants and infirmities than the rest of her crea- 

 tures, unarmed in the midst of enemies. The 

 lion has natural arms, the bear natural clothing ; 

 but man is destitute of all such advantages, and, 

 from the superiority of his mind alone, he is to 

 supply the deficiency. The number of his wants, 

 however, were merely given in order to mul- 

 tiply the number of his enjoyments; since the 

 possibility of being deprived of any good, teaches 

 him the value of its possession. Were man born 

 with those advantages which he learns to possess 

 by industry, he would very probably enjoy them 

 with a blunter relish : it is by being naked, that 



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